Sean, I would certainly look at some pixicles, either in the up down spaced with a rubber hose at the bottom, or the strips that are spliced together. Some people might not realize what you can do with them, scrolling text across the eaves, the dripping, meteor, and I suppose a whole lot more i have not figured out yet.

Alsp JCMark took the porcupine ball and made loops instead of spikes, it is pretty cool and could use a different type of model!

I might be able to fit my 180 pixel tree in the van, but it will depend on how many folks are coming with me. It is 8 strings / 16 strands of TM1804. I have not registered yet although I plan to attend. At my age, registering for stuff like the academy to far in advance can be like gambling. I won't commit until late May or early June.

Since some of us are driving and not flying to the Academy are there things that the presenters could use that we might be able to bring?

Thanks, I think we're finalizing all the details now. If you have a Pi mounted in an enclosure with a FPD or other device, that might be good to display in the class and booth area. I think that Dave/Tony/Sean/JonB are working out the light displays, so I'll have to let them comment further. I believe we are also good on other standard Pi related hardware other than just show-n-tell type things.

I have seen a panel made from ceiling light grid using nodes. Looked pretty good.

Now that could be interesting. I wonder how well the flat-back square pixels fit into the holes. That might be better than my two cardboard boxes each holding a 10x10 matrix. I've been wanting to play with video playback via the memory map interface in FPP and a 10x10 wasn't going to cut it too well, but I have 400 of these flat-back pixels I could use in a 2x4 ceiling grid panel hanging in my office.

I don't have any pictures, but the nodes hold pretty well and are pushed in from the back. It was built by Doug Delong and is owned by Andy Harrison, both in Tennessee near Cleveland. They both hang around in DIYC although I think Andy joined here a couple of months back.